I recently installed OpenSUSE 10.1.  The users for this machine are 
authenticated via LDAP and their homedirs are mounted to this machine using 
NFS.  

Let's say we have three users: root (the local root acct), baduser (my personal 
acct, from LDAP/NFS), and gooduser (a brand new LDAP/NFS account I created for 
this testing).

Logging in as root works fine, I get the default opensuse background image on 
my desktop, and the standard desktop icons (trash, etc...).  I can right-click 
and use the menu to open new terminals, etc...

Logging in as baduser... I get the taskbar (Applications, Places, Desktop, 
etc...) but I get a "Nautilus unexpectedly crashed" error (sometimes more than 
one), I get a black desktop background, I get no desktop icons, and no 
right-click menu.

To rule out LDAP/NFS as the culprit, I created a brand new LDAP/NFS account 
called gooduser, and I log in using that account, and everything works fine.  
So I've shown that LDAP/NFS itself is not the cause.

So, I go to the NFS home directory area, and as root I do this:

# mv baduser baduser-backup
# cp -R gooduser baduser
# chown -R baduser baduser

I then logoff and login again as baduser, and still get all of the errors.  So, 
it wasn't something in the baduser's .nautilus or other config file or anything 
else in baduser's home directory.  What other things could it be?  I'm trying 
to think of what is specific to baduser... his UID (which is 514 and doesn't 
appear to conflict with anything local).  What else am I missing here?  Are 
there local settings caches I may need to clear that might be remembering 
something about baduser?  

What would be specific to a single user account but not stored in that user's 
home directory that would cause Nautilus to crash?

Thanks,
Fran

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653


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